{"product_id":"what-a-time-to-be-alive-9781399740869","title":"What A Time To Be Alive : A tender, surprising and totally absorbing coming of age story from the author of Okay Days","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Playful and witty'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Will go straight to your heart'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucy Caldwell, author of These Days\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Reminiscent of the power and grace of writers like Rachel Cusk and Raven Leilani'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMolly Aitken, author of Bright I Burn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-one and friendless, Sickan arrives at Stockholm University utterly unprepared for adult life. After a chronically lonely childhood, the city represents a fresh start, a chance to finally make friends and the right kind of mistakes. And just as Sickan begins to fit in, she meets Abbe: beautiful, confident, charming - and by some miracle he wants her too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTender and intelligent, What a Time to Be Alive is a story about class, sex, loneliness, and the trials of young womanhood. About asking yourself the question: how much of myself am I willing to sacrifice to simply be normal?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Jenny Mustard writes with honesty and wit about the strange, mundane, and wondrous aspects of youth'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAyşegül Savaş, author of The Anthropologists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Jenny Mustard\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 2 Jul 2026 by Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jenny Mustard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320845967738,"sku":"9781399740869","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781399740869.jpg?v=1790663820","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/what-a-time-to-be-alive-9781399740869","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}